A reputed gang member arrested last spring for the murder of a special education teacher has been charged with killing a 17-year-old boy and wounding a woman two years ago, according to police.

Dominique Hodrick, 33, was charged Thursday with first-degree murder and aggravated battery in the shooting, which occurred in the 7900 block of South Drexel Avenue in the Chatham neighborhood on Aug. 24, 2012.

Police say Hodrick opened fire around 5:40 p.m. and hit the teen in the face and abdomen. He was pronounced dead at Stroger Hospital. The woman, 42, was wounded in the thigh and also taken to Stroger.

The shooting occurred just four blocks from where Betty Howard, 58, was killed last May as she chatted with co-workers at her second job at a realty office. Police say Hodrick had spotted a rival gang member driving by and pulled a gun from his waist and shot at the passing car.

Several bullets ripped through a wall of the office across the busy street in the 700 block of East 79th. One pierced Howard's heart. Another co-worker and a woman walking her Shih Tzu dog on the street outside both suffered graze wounds.

A married mother of two adult children, Howard taught for nearly 20 years in Chicago Public Schools, the last seven at Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy. Her brother is a Chicago police officer.

Hodrick was arrested days after the shooting in a car outside a south suburban Lansing motel where he was hiding out, according to law enforcement sources and an arrest report. He was charged with first-degree murder, attempted murder and other offenses the next day as services were held for Howard at Salem Baptist Church.